Bread is Ready, Coffee is Done, is done

The recent closing of Bread is Ready, Coffee is Done comes as a curious casualty in Phnom Penh’s ongoing coffee shop explosion. The Boeung Keng Kang eatery opened about six months ago on Street 57 in a neighborhood filled with high-end coffee houses.

The few times I had been there, the place seemed no better or worse than any of the other shops in the neighborhood, and it always seemed to have customers. So it was a surprise to see laborers hammering away at a gutted interior this afternoon, in perhaps the first indication that the BKK coffee-house market has reached a saturation point.